Oh, by 'getting excited,' are you referring to your wet dreams along this line? ROFLMAO.
Not if it is spun-off along with HDR, and NOK buys a piece:)
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By the way, do you agree that only the most naive and gullible investors will get excited about cheap PR wordplay like this:
QUALCOMM will aggressively enforce its patent rights around the world and unlicensed companies that supply products for 3G CDMA systems, such as WCDMA, as well as companies that use such products from an unlicensed supplier will be infringing QUALCOMM's patents.
QUALCOMM expects to charge the same royalty rates for all third-generation products as it does for 2G (IS-95A), 2.5G (IS-95B) and 3G CDMA 1x, but, because terms and conditions may change over time, QUALCOMM has reserved the right to adjust its license terms and conditions, including
increasing its royalties, for those companies that delay in entering into a license with QUALCOMM.....
Never mind that QCOM is making grandiose claims over all forms of CDMA, it is apparently blissfully unaware that the natural response from the TDMA/GSM camp would then be to charge high enough to wash out QCOM's desperate patent-one-patent-all gimmick. Of course, this also means that QCOM's WCDMA chip business is already dead on arrival. Remember, the WCDMA-only and the GSM/WCDMA chipset segments will be the initial volume rollouts for 3G. Note also that Qualcomm is completely shut out of the numerous hybrid TDMA/GSM/WCDMA trials all around the world and is thus developing its 3G WCDMA technology in a totally abstract fashion devoid of any meaningful environmental data.
I believe that we are watching an American company with a great engineering tradition suffocating under its own legalistic maneuvers, thrashing about with cheap PR that no longer fools anyone of consequence. Of course, one can't totally ignore the fact that QCOM has a well-deserved rap as a mediocre manufacturer of infrastructure and handsets as well as proven track record of overpromising and underdelivering on the technology. Their shabby treatment of their former infras employees will probably play a part before it is all over.
It's just too bad that there will be CDMAOne operators-as-victims like the Thai CDMAOne operator with a measly 3,000 subscribers which is getting absolutely creamed by......the Handyphone (PHS) operator. LOL. Poor Thai should tell his story at next week's CDG hypefest especially the part of how he is laboring under the heavy cost of the CDMAOne network and unable to compete in terms of handset price. LOL.
And then this piece of crappy PR becomes quite pathetic actually when you look at the way the the supply lines are, quite naturally in the most darwinian sense, aligning themselves quietly behind the de facto global standard and the de facto upgrade path especially since most of the global carrier community has organized themselves into potent buying groups in the era of smart buying and smart selling. |
